The Chickasaw messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1880-1900, 1887-12-08
Holly springs State Normal.

wish 70 say TO African that the
TRUSTEES Of the Holly Springs
State Normal School are we'll
pleased with its success, and the
Legislature will be pleased when
the report is made.
No student can enter who is not
as far advanced as Ratio in Robin
sons Practical Arithmetic. The
school enrolled last session 107 pu-
pills who came up to the require
ments. This is the only colored
school in the State, with lO7 pupils
as far advanced. Allow MS to re-
ceive a b and 4th reader scholars
Gas your Classical q Universities
do), and we will be able to COM
pare in numbers.
The Normal has more graduates
than any two oolored schools in
the State. We have list of all
the first grade colored teachers in
the State, and the Normal students
constitute AZ per cent of the num-
Der. Does African know that the
Normal students examination pa
pers on file in the County Suporin-
dents Office at this place, are as
good as the classtIc students pa
persl They are better. Does
African know that as many stu
dents come from the University to
the Normal as go from the Normal
to the University? Does African
know that these two schools are
upon friendly terms? Does Afri-
can know that every body IN Hol-
| ly Springs are surprised at the
wonderful success of the Normal
Does African know that Mr.. Pres
ton once thought as he does, but
has been convinced that the Nor
NAL is a grand success in Holly
SpringsY Does African know any
thing about the Normal? Where
did he get his information?
Now African, if yop want the
Normal school in Okofona, speak
of the many merits of Okolona.
She has hundreds of which you
can speak. Don't write things
that are contradicted by facts aud
figures. Mr.. Preston has visited
the Normal school and knows all
about it. DR.. Haygood, of Geor-
gia, visited the Normal and has
volunteered a report of its success.
Gen. A. NJ. West lives near the
Normal and will testify OF its won
derful success.
"These, like Roderiok, are men;
A few blasts from their bugles,
Are worth q thousand men,"
The Normal presents A. J. Oakes,
V. N. Nelson, S. B. Jenkins and
Earnest Chew, as four of her best
graduates. Can you find four from
any other eolored college in the
State to compare with them in
scholarship The Normal school
has proved a success in Holly
Springs. It has succeeded beyond
the expectation Of its most sanguine
friends. It's course of study is
Just what il ought to be: Arlth-
metic, Algebra, Geometry, Trigo-
nometry, Surveying and Naviga-
tion, Grammar, Rhetoric, Moral
and Natural Philosophy, Chemist
ry and every thing except the
classics @. We have the finest
Library and Labratory Of any
colored, school in this country.
The faculty of the. Normal are
all colcred. They are Mississip.
plans. The colored people of the
State are proud of the Normal and
Aloorn University, because our
color have a chance TO demonstrate
the colored mans abilities as an
educator. The Legislature OF
Mississippi will be proud to know
that the colored sons and daugh-
ters Of Mississippi are able to
manage and conduct the higher
educational institutions for the
colored of this State.
The white people of Mississippi
and the cOlOred too, are convinced
of the fact, that the education Oi